The 7-Minute Miracle: The Breakthrough Program to Banish Spot Fat Forever

by Sheldon Levine

Book Overview

This is the first book that takes a genetic approach to losing weight and reshaping your body. "The 7-Minute Spot Reducing Solution" is the latest way for the millions of Americans to lose extra pounds in their "trouble-spot" areas.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895261820
• ISBN13: 9780895261823
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Lifeline Press (CA)
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

7 - Minute Miracle made me lose 25 pounds!

Dr. Levine is an awesome guy first off and second of all his book on this quick weight loss exercise is FANTASTIC! I mean, for only 7 little minutes of the day, you have to do one spot exercise for your problem area. Whether it be your arms, thighs, hips, stomach or butt. My father had his book laying around his room, so one day I was curious and picked it up. I found myself always looking for a way to tone my tummy and lose a few pounds. I used to weigh 145 when I started this and was a size 11 in junior pants. After using this book initially in January 2003 and following its methods, by May of that same year, I had dropped to a size 7. I started getting compliment after compliment, so I felt great! So I pursued this workout program and got myself finally down to a size 3 pant and now weigh 115-120 pound range. It's now 2010, about 7 years later and I've kept the weight off and never have gone back! I strongly recommend this book, as well as meeting Dr. Levine if you live in the north eastern NJ area!

Dr. Levine...My Hero

As one of Dr. Levine's patients, I can tell you first hand, the man and his excercises are brilliant. I started The Seven Minute Miracle excercises on a friday and by monday, friends of mine did not recognize me from a distance. The change in my silhouette was that drastic that quickly. Dr.Levine has enabled me to lose over 100 lbs., the last 40 of which I attribute to the excercises alone. The man and his book have changed and saved my life.

the 7 minute miracle,Dr.Sheldon Levine

The book was a great help for me in my weight loss and firming up spots on my body that i thought were impossible to slim down.I recomend this book highly.It has done wonders for me!!I am now able to fit into a size I have never been able to before,and see myself working my way down.I totaly enjoyed the book .I've spent many years on diet drugs nd when i started this program I didnt need anything else but the book by my side,it has worked wonders for me!Thank You ,LINDA FROM NEW JERSEY

It helped me break my family's pot-bellied tradition!

When I first read the beginning of the book, I did not think that it was possible for me to lose weight in only 7 minutes per day. Therefore, I researched genetic weight loss on the internet, and it was really all that Dr. Levine said it was. So, I decided that such an easy-to-manage program was worth a shot. The program turned out to be so easy and it fit in to my lifestyle so well that I decided to make this excercise long-term. The spot weight loss took effect rather quickly, and the part about this program that I liked more than other programs is that there was no crazy diet system, and the spot meals tasted good. I liked the idea of working with, and not against my heredity. Big bellies were a trait that ran in my family, and I feel very happy that I broke the mold that I was confined to before.

I can't believe it's actually working...

Okay, my first thought when I saw the title was "This guy's nuts. Everyone knows you can't spot reduce!" But being a sucker for anything that promises me a smaller rear-end, I had to give it a try.Here's why it supposedly works: when you exercise, adrenaline and other chemicals are released into your bloodstream causing fat (energy) to be released into your bloodstream for your working muscles to use as fuel. That part is generally accepted as scientific fact. The doctor's theory goes on to conclude that since your working muscles receive a greater flow of blood than the rest of your body (hence the "pump" one gets when a muscle is worked with intensity), more fat will be released in the area where the muscles are working.Before I bought the book, I had been working out consistently for about 8 months and was getting decent results overall (reduced my bodyfat from about 25% to 20%), but my saddlebags (ick!) just didn't want to go away. I added this to my program 3 weeks ago (I do the butt exercises daily) and I truly do see a difference.I only gave the book 4 stars out of five, because the one thing it lacks is scientific support for the spot-reduction theory -- the doctor does include several anecdotes with photos, but no clinical studies to prove that it really works.He also recommends consuming about 1,500 calories a day. Personally, I think that's a bit low -- I weight about 140, get about 30 minutes of exercise a day and eat approximately 1,800 to 2,000 calories daily.So the bottom line -- pun intended :-) -- is this: it's working for me and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with a stubborn body part they want to change.